riker VS MoonZoon

I remember a crate called riker that did distribute actors but it looks like it's abandoned unfortunately.

However, this isn't even 50% of what's out there: Need raw parallel power (and maybe don't need an async runtime)? Checkout Rayon. Need simple Actors for concurrent processing? Checkout Actix. Need a larger Actor system for fault tolerance/CQRS messaging? Checkout Riker. Damn, I sound like a youtube advert 🤦 - For real though, this is the tip of the concurrency iceberg. There is so much more - and it's growing.

They are both async and made for GUI -- in case of rust-signals WebGUI, provided by dominator and MoonZoon.

Fullstack Framework: MoonZoon, Leptos

Dominator is more of a low-level framework for manipulating the DOM. There's also MoonZoon (https://github.com/MoonZoon/MoonZoon) which uses dominator but provides a more complete experience.

Alternative 2)thin client in browser and server in rust. If you really want to limit it to web client and web server, possibly try a newer approach with moonzoon. https://github.com/MoonZoon/MoonZoon/tree/main/examples/todomvc

I don't really know Rust so clearly I'm not the target audience, but this thing where you define all the styles using chains of methods seems kinda clumsy to me. And if it's all turning into CSS in the end you presumably still need to understand CSS concepts in order to make the layout you want using this syntax. So I'm not sure this is really saving you from learning HTML and CSS. That said it does appear to be compiling your Rust to web assembly (like Blazor does) which is pretty cool.

I've come across MoonZoon (https://github.com/MoonZoon/MoonZoon) which seems like an interesting full stack framework, but I'm wondering about a solution that would allow choosing both frontend and backend frameworks.

There’s also https://github.com/MoonZoon/MoonZoon which is built on dominator. It’s in fairly early stage development but offers a higher level interface than dominator.